Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth

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Size: 259 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:2012

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Russell Pate, Maria Oria, and Laura Pillsbury, Editors; Committee on Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth; Food and Nutrition Board; Institute of Medicine
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-14	(skim)
1 Introduction	15-22	(skim)
2 Measuring Fitness in Youth	23-48	(skim)
3 Methodology for Selection and Interpretation of Health-Related Fitness Measures in Youth	49-78	(skim)
4 Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Body Composition	79-110	(skim)
5 Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Cardiorespiratory Endurance	111-152	(skim)
6 Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Musculoskeletal Fitness	153-186	(skim)
7 Health-Related Fitness Measures for Youth: Flexibility	187-206	(skim)
8 Fitness Measures for a National Youth Survey	207-214	(skim)
9 Fitness Measures for Schools and Other Educational Settings	215-234	(skim)
10 Future Needs	235-238	(skim)
Appendix A: Agenda	239-242	(skim)
Appendix B: Glossary	243-248	(skim)
Appendix C: Acronyms	249-252	(skim)
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	253-260	(skim)

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Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active. At poor levels, it is associated with such health outcomes as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Physical fitness testing in American youth was established on a large scale in the 1950s with an early focus on performance-related fitness that gradually gave way to an emphasis on health-related fitness. Using appropriately selected measures to collected fitness data in youth will advance our understanding of how fitness among youth translates into better health.

In Fitness Measures and Health Outcomes in Youth, the IOM assesses the relationship between youth fitness test items and health outcomes, recommends the best fitness test items, provides guidance for interpreting fitness scores, and provides an agenda for needed research.

The report concludes that selected cardiorespiratory endurance, musculoskeletal fitness, and body composition measures should be in fitness surveys and in schools. Collecting fitness data nationally and in schools helps with setting and achieving fitness goals and priorities for public health at an individual and national level.

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